Early generations of 'social media', or in the context of this post I guess 'microblogging' were super personal, basic, and of the moment (without followup for 24hrs when another post happened). I'm talking like early Twitter posts would be what people were having for lunch. Or that they just woke up and were enjoying a coffee. And the classic "poopin'". It was like that for at least a few years before the posts got longer and more directed to conversational context or 'trying to say something more'.